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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marei</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks so much for filling me in on butterflies
and bees. The concept of pollinating bees makes sense and I am utterly
fascinated by your description of butterflies. I have noted the phenonema in
groups--someone is present but not entering in. I've also noted many attempts
over the years on the part of groups to activate such folks and I've never
felt comfortable with the pressure to confrom. Now I have a vibrant word to
honor such folks--butterflies.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rich Foss<BR>Evergreen Leaders, 19235 Plow
Creek<BR>Tiskilwa, IL 61368, Voice & Fax: 815-646-6600<BR><A
href="mailto:richfoss@plowcreek.org">richfoss@plowcreek.org</A></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=MareiKiele@web.de href="mailto:MareiKiele@web.de">Marei Kiele</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> butterflies and
bumblebees</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000a0 size=2>"Rich
Foss" <<A
href="mailto:richfoss@plowcreek.org">richfoss@plowcreek.org</A>>
schrieb:</FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000a0 size=2>Last
Saturday I did my first OS faciltiation... "That's fine," I said, "We're
going to use the law of two feet so you can leave any time you want."
(Instead of describing OS in the preparatory session we pastoral elders had
simply said that we were not going to use our traditonal format of all
sitting in a circle listening to one person at a time
talk).</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>Dear
Rich,</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000
size=2>congratulations on your first os from one beginner to the other. Any
other first timer's out there??? And I very much liked the tone of your
answer to the man's question very much - feels totally accepting. Thank you
for your story :-)</FONT><BR><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000a0
size=2>I have a question. I've seen references on the list to butterflies
and bees but haven't been able to dicipher the meaning.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>As no one of the elder's has
answered your question yet I dare explaining the butterfly and the
bumblebee. They are methaphors for what appears, when people follow the law
of the two feet: Some may act as bumblebees do in nature, fly from flower to
flower (or group to group), never taking all the nectar (never staying long)
and people may think: what a mess they are making, how chaotic - but like
bumblebees in nature just incidentally they take the pollen with them, they
crosspollinate, they take ideas, thoughts, feelings, atmosphere from one
group to another and connect and enrich the whole system.</FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>Butterflies are those people who
don't join a group at all, who stay at the snackbar or outside or go for a
walk - who seem to do nothing "useful" in a normal way - exept: they are
beautiful.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>(By the
way: At first I found it difficult to say beautiful because I could not see
the beauty in them, myself. Now I do: How beautiful when somebody is able to
give him/herself the freedom not to join in!)</FONT><BR><FONT
face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>They seem to be doing nothing
important or useful for anybody or for the group but they do: They help
opening the space - and, as Michael M says, in systemic thinking they are
places of inactivity - meaning that nothing is planned or expected - so
everything is possible to happen. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#000000 size=2>Just think that the best preparation to be surprised
may be being a butterfly myself?!</FONT><BR><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#000000 size=2>I'll try that out in "normal"
life!!</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000
size=2>Marei</FONT><BR><BR><BR>* *
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